Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
pewit .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs; the pewit.
- noun Any of several small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.
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- noun any of several
birds
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
- noun large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
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Examples
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Invisible larks poured trills over the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble, the peewit wept over the hollows and marshes still filled with brown water; high up the cranes and geese flew with their spring honking.
Tolstoy III: Invisible Larks Bruce Schauble 2008
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Invisible larks poured trills over the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble, the peewit wept over the hollows and marshes still filled with brown water; high up the cranes and geese flew with their spring honking.
Archive 2008-04-01 Bruce Schauble 2008
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The down was desolate, east and west, north and south; the road with its shallow ditches and white bordering stakes, ran smooth and empty north and south, and, save for that peewit, the blue sky was empty too.
The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006
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Overhead an anxious peewit circled against the blue, and every now and then emitted its feeble cry.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
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And when these had vanished in the distance Graham heard a peewit wailing close at hand.
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I just had a peewit bird follow me around the garden.
4th May '05 2005
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As our peewit takes its name from the sound of its voice, so does the teru-tero.
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As our peewit takes its name from the sound of its voice, so does the teru-tero.
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The cries of the curlew and peewit, the honey-pale orb of the moon
Under The Moon William Butler Yeats 1995
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The cries of the curlew and peewit, the honey-pale orb of the moon
Under The Moon William Butler Yeats 1995
reesetee commented on the word peewit
British nickname for the lapwing (not to be confused with New World flycatchers such as the pewee, which have the same nickname).
February 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word peewit
I this the same bird as the pewit?
October 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word peewit
In general, yes, but both spellings refer to several different species of birds--lapwing, flycatchers (especially phoebes) and Black-Headed Gull.
October 13, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word peewit
And not to be confused with a peawit, which is one of my colleagues.
October 13, 2008
reesetee commented on the word peewit
That colleague must work here too. The commute has to be grueling.
October 14, 2008